AI in Europe How could society and economy make the best of this revolution?

Cecile Huet PhD

1st-Dec-2017

Description: European AI-on-demand platform mobilising the European AI community to support businesses and sectors in accessing expertise, knowledge, algorithms and tools to successfully apply AI thereby generating market impact.

AI in Europe
How could the EC help European
society and economy to make
the best of this revolution?
=> H2020 - ICT-26-2018-2020 – Artificial
Intelligence
Cécile Huet, PhD
Deputy Head of Unit A1
Robotics & AI
European Commission

ntial not fully exploited in Europe
STRATEGY: Develop the European AI on-demand
platform

1) Join forces in Europe: Build an AI Platform -> ecosystem
integrating knowledge, capacity and access to data
2) Invest in R&D in areas where Europe can lead
3) Boost European industry competitiveness with AI and make
European citizens benefit from AI (ageing, transport, etc.)

"One-stop shop"

- integrating tools and resources
- offering solutions and support to all users of AI to
integrate such technology into application, products and
services

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SCOPE: European AI-on-demand platform
European AI-on-demand platform mobilising the
European AI community to support businesses and
sectors in accessing expertise, knowledge,
algorithms and tools to successfully apply AI
thereby generating market impact.
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The platform should:
 central point to gather and provide access to
AI-related knowledge, algorithms and tools;
 support potential users of AI in order to facilitate
the integration of AI into applications;

THE PLATFORM = CENTRAL POINT
 Develop a European AI ecosystem
 knowledge, algorithms, tools and resources available and
making it a compelling solution for users, especially from nontech sectors.

 Facilitate the interaction with existing data portals,
and resources => support interoperability
 Connect and cooperate with other relevant activities
of this workprogramme
 DIHs, Pilot,…

BUILDING THE PLATFORM: structure & content
 WHO:
Mobilise the European AI community => researchers, businesses
and start-ups to provide access to knowledge, algorithms and tools;
 WHAT:
Define sustainable processes and structures
governance, access, business models, licensing, etc.
Develop a suitable software infrastructure

APIs and tools to aggregate existing tools and algorithms and
to make them easily deployable in applications, as well as to
access data and computing resources
 HOW: Filling important technology gaps through challengebased and/or user-driven research and innovation efforts.
 application or technology focus in major domains (e.g: robotics, IoT, CPS,
intuitive interfaces, personalised applications, healthcare, manufacturing or
agriculture)

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MAJOR COMPONENTS:
• Gathering user requirements
- based on representative set of its future users
(researchers and industry).

• Research and innovation efforts => strong
synergies with the platform building
- providing user requirements, guiding its development,
exploiting its resources, and contributing to its content

• Additional efforts
- might be necessary to ensure that the needs of the
various types of potential users of the platforms are
represented

• Comprehensive service layer => facilitate use
and uptake of the platform by end-users and
researchers;

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EXPLOIT
EXPLOIT

• Reaching out to new user domains and
boosting the use of the platform.
- FSTP* to fund promising projects exploiting the
resources and services offered by the platform to
foster technology transfer of AI-based solutions
- Maximum 3M€ funding [EUR 50.000. EUR 200.000]
per third party;

This is a program covering from Research
to Exploitation & Community & Strategy
building

Projects focusing on a
single specific
application/technology

It should include a set of substantial and
representative challenges
It should combine Research and Innovation
+ community&strategy building

Small consortia

The major labs (RTOs, Academia) and
major industrial players should be on board
Cover whole value chain/network

Pure monolithic technology
platform

Rather an aggregation of/ and link to
existing tools and resources - ecosystem

Simple repository of SW
and Data

The service layer is key

Work Programme topic – topic evolution
3. Is this new or has it been called before?
e.g. How is it new / different from previous calls
What previous WP topic is it linked to? W
hat are the main changes?
Is it linked to other topics in the current WP? (e.g. in LEIT or other pillars)
It is new but should capitalize on results and resources from other parts of LEIT
- Robotics
- Big Data
- HPC/CLOUD
- Should ideally link to relevant applications/societal challenges: Health, autonomous
transport, smart cities, agriculture, security (including cybersecurity), etc.
- In the longer term the platform should have a 2 ways interaction with all the H2020
topics

Future Outlook
8. Do you have information about future
trends, emerging initiatives, roadmaps, key
players in this area?
NEXT STEPS: support to the platform will
continue in 2020 to consolidate the offer +
support the exploitation

Upcoming events / information days
9. Please list upcoming information days and other
events of relevance to this area
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